"For an inventor, the main challenge might be technical, but sometimes it’s timing that determines success. Steven Sasson had the technical talent but developed his prototype for an all-digital camera a couple of decades too early." https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/how-the-digital-camera-transformed-our-concept-of-history
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Apple had a digital camera back in the early 90s that went exactly nowhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake